Cao Session Shop Toro is as sweet as cherry syrup

Cao Session Shop Toro is a unique and peculiar cigar. It tastes of cherry. That's right: cherry syrup. Sweet, sweeter, sweetest.

A cigar test is subjective

Note: How a cigar tastes is influenced by personal taste preferences, taste memories, the form of the day, what you have eaten or drunk beforehand. Even the lighting in the room has an influence on the flavour you experience. The notes described here therefore do not necessarily correspond to your own impressions.

Fact Sheet

• Format: Toro (length: 152 mm / ring gauge: 60)
• Tobacco:
  • Wrapper leaf: Broadleaf Connecticut, USA
  • Leaf: Dom. Republic
  • Filler: Dom. Republic, Nicaragua
• Price: Status April 2022
  • CHF 12.00 / box of 20 CHF 240.00
  • EUR 9.50 / box of 20 EUR 190.00

Personal impressions of the pleasure

Recommended acclimatisation: Suitable for tasting immediately.

First half

• Tongue, palate: Cherry, chocolate, nut
• Retronasal: A mix of sugar and nuts
• R+ ZiZo vacuum technology: Caramel
• Umami: meaty / juicy
• Strength 3/5

Second half

• Sorry, I didn't get that far with this cigar. I gave up in the first third.

Conclusion of the Cao Session Shop Toro

The Cao Session Shop Toro is an incredible cigar. I didn't know it before. If you don't try it, you won't believe it. It was like this: I cut it and took a cold draw. The cherry syrup flavour immediately shot through my brain and all the alarm bells went off: „ALARM! ALARM! FLAVOURED CIGAR!“

Stay calm. It is not flavoured. That's what all online retailers say. The sweet cherry flavour comes from a special type of fermentation. Well, it seems to me as if these wrappers have been cooked in a sweetish brew. Sorry, wrappers are sometimes actually ‘cooked„ to speed up the fermentation or to get a darker colour more quickly.

Ok, light it, puff it. Eww. No, thank you. That was just awful for me. Like having a cherry-sugar stick between my lips all the time. I gave up during the first third. That's not for me.

But, hey, if you like the cigar, all the better. I recommend you buy it, try it and write here in the comments how you liked it (you have to be registered and logged in to do this).

As always: „If I like the cigar, maybe you will too. But if you don't like it, then there's more for me!‘ 🙂 BUT in this case it's the other way round. There's more for you.

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